Deadly 60 – 23 Aug 2010

Today’s recording starts with a trail for Escape from Scorpion Island. Then it’s Deadly 60 – Australia. Steve Backshall is demonstrating how drag when moving fast through water is extremely hard to overcome. To such an extent that he loses his swimming trunks when being towed at 6 knots. This is all to explain that the Tuna is the most hydroynamic fish in the ocean, achieving speeds of up to 70kmh. While trying and failing to spot a duck-billed platypus, they meet a kangaroo. He also meets a Trapdoor Spider. He does find a Jack Jumper Ant. Back into the water to find some cuttlefish. Media Centre Description: The wildlife action moves to the south coast of Australia as naturalist Steve Backshall and the Deadly 60 team take the plunge in the waters of the Pacific. Steve has heard that yellowfin tuna are super-fast lethal killers, but what makes them so special? Strange alien-like giant cuttlefish also await Steve in the warm Pacific waters. It is then a short hop up the coast to try…